1967 - Are You Going My Way / Everybody's Got You (For Their Own)*
(Roulette 4750)**

*second pressing label says Everybody's Got You (For Your Own)

**credited to Anita Humes & The Essex

Albums:

1963 - {Easier Said Than Done}

Easier Said Than Done / Whenever I Need My Baby / Where Is He / All In
My Mind / Every Night / I Love Her / Are You Going My Way / Been So Long / Come
On To My Party / I Have To Cry / Conga La Ya / We Belong Together (Roulette R 25234
/ SR 25234)

1963- {A Walkin' Miracle}

A Walkin' Miracle / What I Don't Know Won't Hurt Me / She's Got
Everything / Curfew Lover / Why Do Fools Fall In Love / Dance Without Music / Crawl
Before You Walk / Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind / More Than It Would Help / I Want
The Real True Thing / I'd Do Anything / Quit While You're Ahead (Roulette R 25235
/ SR 25235)

1964 - {Young & Lively - Featuring Anita Humes with The Essex}

Marriage License / Young Wings Can Fly / Actions Speak Louder Than Words
/ In My Dreams / You Talk To Much / Gee Whiz / There's No Fool Like A Young
Fool / Where There's A Will (There's A Way) / Bring It To Me / You Can't Please
All Of Your Lovers / Creation Of Love / Make Him Feel Like A Man (Roulette R 25246
/ SR 25246)

The Essex were an R&B vocal group formed in 1962 by members of the
U.S. Marine Corps at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina. Members included, Anita
Humes, Walter Vickers, Rodney Taylor, Billy Hill and Rudolph Johnson. Sandwiched
between doo-wop’s fading popularity and the British invasion of the airwaves,
the band’s clean-cut sound was perfect for the time. The Essex put out hopeful
and buoyant music, a reflection of attitudes in postwar America and on the
heels of the Cuban missile crisis. Their music was the kind listeners would
sing to themselves as they walked down the street.

Gary, Indiana's Rodney Taylor and New Brunswick, New Jersey's Walter
Vickers had joined vocal forces in Okinawa before being shipped back stateside.
They teamed with Billie Hill from Princeton, N.J. and New Yorker Rudolph
Johnson, but it took 22-year-old lead Anita Humes, born in 1940 in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, to make the group special. She'd enlisted in the Marines in
October of 1960 and was singing at Camp Lejeune's NCO club when they met.

A demo was sent to Roulette Records, where it was heard by industry vets
George Goldner and Henry Glover. The group snared furloughs so they could
audition in person in March of 1963. Within 24 hours, The Essex (named after
Essex, County, N.J.) were in the studio. Goldner and Glover didn't realize that
“Easier Said Than Done,” the work of fellow Marines William Linton and Larry
Huff, was a hit with its 'tick-a-tick' rhythm (Linton transposed the tempo he
heard as a teletype operator) and Anita's clear-as-a-bell lead. It was
designated the flip side to Johnson's “Are You Going My Way” when Roulette
pressed The Essex's debut platter that May. Reaction from the public decreed a
happier fate for “Easier Said Than Done.” On June 8, 1963 The Essex first hit
record made its Billboard Hot 100 debut. The record went right to the top of
the charts, becoming the #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard
R&B chart. The recording sold over 1 million copies and was awarded a “Gold
Record”.

Decked out in their snappy Marine uniforms, The Essex looked like no
other act on the 1963 scene. Military duties limited their concert appearances;
Johnson was shipped out not long thereafter. The Essex followed-up their hit
with another Top 20 hit record.On
August 24, 1963 the group charted “A Walkin’ Miracle”. The single charted at
#12 on the Hot 100 and #11 on the R&B chart. In November of 1963 the group
charted their third single record of the year.On November 16, 1963, “She’s Got Everyting” charted on the Hot 100.The single was a modest hit, charting at #56
and failed to chart on the Billboard R&B chart.On November 30, 1963 the flip side of the
record charted on the R&B chart. “Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind” charted at
#42, but did not chart on the Hot 100.

Anita left the Marines in October 1963 and went on an eight-month,
36-city Dick Clark Caravan of Stars tour with Bobby Vee, The Ronettes, Little
Eva, Jimmy Clanton and The Dovells. The Essex were in Dallas, Texas, on Nov.
22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was shot.That show was canceled. Perhaps their most
telling engagement was their appearance at New York City’s legendary Apollo
Theatre: The Essex’ chart run was over, and after a handful of little-noticed
records like "Curfew Lover," The Essex broke up in early 1964. Anita
enlisted in the Army the following June. She was assigned to Fort Gordon's
communications school, where she met Gene Chappelle. They were married Oct. 3,
1964, in the post chapel. Anita Humes released two solo singles on the Roulette
label, but had no chart success.

Anita Humes Chapelle

Rodney Taylor was killed in a New York City robbery in 1966, the same
year the reformed Essex, now Humes and two gents, cut a Bang single. A last 45
back on Roulette the next year and they were done. Anita Humes Chappelle was
divorced and living in Harrisburg when she died May 30, 2010 at age 69.